Skibicki awarded USM scholarship The University of Southern Maine has announced that Anastasia Skibicki of Westbrook, a nursing student, has been awarded the Women’s Board of the Maine General Hospital Nursing scholarship. Skibicki, a 2008 graduate of Bonny Eagle High School, is the daughter of Douglas Skibicki of Buxton. UNH dean’s list Four Westbrook students […]
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Westbrook notes – 7/4
Skibicki awarded USM scholarship The University of Southern Maine has announced that Anastasia Skibicki of Westbrook, a nursing student, has been awarded the Women’s Board of the Maine General Hospital Nursing scholarship. Skibicki, a 2008 graduate of Bonny Eagle High School, is the daughter of Douglas Skibicki of Buxton. UNH dean’s list Four Westbrook students […]
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Westbrook cuts programming on public access TV
WESTBROOK – Special events, including performances, concerts and even the live broadcast of the first day back to school for students, may be cut from public access Channel 2 due to cuts in the broadcasting budget by the Westbrook School Department. While the cuts were approved during the budget process, the effects of those cuts […]
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Westbrook police using grant for drunk-driving patrols
With grant funding in the amount of $10,000 from the Maine Bureau of Highway Safety, Westbrook police will be conducting saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints in an effort to remove impaired drivers from the road this summer, starting this week. Westbrook police will be staffing sobriety checkpoints at various locations, as well as having officers […]
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Westbrook police using grant for drunk-driving patrols
With grant funding in the amount of $10,000 from the Maine Bureau of Highway Safety, Westbrook police will be conducting saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints in an effort to remove impaired drivers from the road this summer, starting this week. Westbrook police will be staffing sobriety checkpoints at various locations, as well as having officers […]
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Leonard Pitts: Congress should rebuild what Supreme Court tore down
The Voting Rights Act was the most important achievement of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Joint Chiefs of Staff to visit Portsmouth shipyard
Dempsey and delegation members are scheduled to visit Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and Pease Air National Guard Base on Monday.
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Surry man dies in Ellsworth crash
Peter Dickinson’s vehicle was traveling east on the Bucksport Road at about 11:30 p.m. Monday when his car crossed into the opposite lane and collided with another vehicle.
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Park suffers lonesome blues
WESTBROOK – Westbrook Commons remains underutilized, neglected WESTBROOK – Blue Note Park is easy to miss. The hardscape Main Street park, created in the middle of the Westbrook Commons during urban renewal in the 1970s, was once hoped to be a public gathering space, with seating areas and even a working fountain. There’s not much […]
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Westbrook may curb fireworks use
WESTBROOK – When Maine permitted the sale of consumer fireworks last year, it also issued regulations on their use, but many municipalities, including Westbrook, have deemed the state regulations too loose to govern use within city limits. On Monday, Westbrook city councilors pieced a variety of amendments together into a proposal that would allow residents […]